books.google.com - Born and raised in the heart of French Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early 1990s. Rodrigue's body of work, however, encompasses far more than Blue Dog. Sure to delight Blue Dog fans and art aficionados alike,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_art_of_George_Rodrigue.html?id=AJtQAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe art of George Rodrigue

The art of George Rodrigue

Born and raised in the heart of French Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early 1990s. Rodrigue's body of work, however, encompasses far more than Blue Dog. Sure to delight Blue Dog fans and art aficionados alike, this volume, the first retrospective of the artist's forty-year-career, provides a comprehensive view of the Rodrigue oeuvre, including many unpublished and never-before-seen works.

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The art of George Rodrigue

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Though Rodrigue's earliest paintings recorded scenes of ordinary Cajun life, he is renowned for his iconic Blue Dog. This retrospective celebrates 40 years of his work, focusing on the development ... Read full review

About the author (2003)

Ginger Danto has lived in Paris for the last 15 years, where she wrote about the arts for ARTnews, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Village Voice, Dance Magazine, and Art and Antiques. She recently relocated to her native New York.